The Quest for Phillip.
Yesterday was pretty rough on my nerves. Had this guy who I really thought was cool and wanted to give an acting opportunity just simply bail on me with no explanation whatsoever. In fact I noticed today he'd unfriended me after making sure I couldn't send him messages on facebook. We'd scheduled a rehearsal session because I wanted to work with him and make sure we would at least appear to have a bond with each other when we would film our scenes the next day. Today. So I show up at the location for the rehearsal after having booked a space for us to use and dude straight up did a no call no show. It was really insane and I'm starting to wonder if there are some evil people out there whose main purpose for existing is to FUCK up other folks shit. I mean why on earth would you agree to something....a paying gig that could possibly open up doors then just needlessly burn bridges? I don't get it. Then when I thought I found an actor to replace him that guy cancelled on me and I was forced literally at the last minute to scramble for another actor. I didn't even tell the director I had to find a third guy till after our shoot was done the next day!
So yep I managed with the grace of GOD to find via craigslist another actor. What a strange way it happened though. When I saw his response to my craigslist casting ad for a gay actor I almost lost my mind because not only was he gorgeous, he also was talented with an onscreen presence thats undeniable. Also he has the same name as the character he was cast as. He told me he'd been doing a search on craigslist and he meant to type in "guy" and typed in "gay" instead and thats how he stumbled across my ad for an actor. Dude is 6 foot four and mixed with Ukrainian and African. Tall, light skinned and very cool. So now he is playing a role I struggled to cast ever since Monte moved to Texas. This guy is the third actor to play Phillip. Hopefully he will stick around. I sent an UBER to pick him up and paid him a bit more than I usually do my actors because of how early we were filming and the distance we had to travel. It was mostly due to the fact he SAVED our shoot for which I am eternally grateful. We would have had to cancel without him no doubt. I am planning to go to film in Detroit next month and have already talked with him about coming along to play Phillip. I think he'll do it if he's available. We'll see....
